SPELLING BEE WORD LIST

GRADE 2-3

Revised January, 1990

before

absent

~B~

about

Amity

balance

been

alone

accident

basin

because

apartment

adverb

banjo

boys

another

assortment

blizzard

bears

anywhere

auditorium

barometer

bags

anger

April

broadcast

butter

Arkansas

August

ball

better

Arkadelphia

advice

barn

boot

ate

affectionate

bell

bowl

always

ambition

bird

blow

apple

alley

birthday

bloom

already

affect

balloon

black

afraid

adopted

basket

baseball

aunt

accepted

bitter

bring

after

awfully

beef

bread

again

admire

believe

brother

any

automatic

Bible

broken

ask

antenna

bone

butterfly

as

aerial

beast

boat

air

aviator

bicycle

bait

are

attitude

bridge

become

active

amusement

bargain

bobbing

aid

atmosphere

biology

buttons

appear

accurate

bonus

bother

address

accomplish

buttonhole

bad

airport

altitude

buy

box

alto

best

berries

avoid

both

began

~A~

bail

carry

cough

~D~

beaver

cool

curve

design

basement

call

cashier

dumb

build

close

complaint

discuss

blackberry

could

creature

delicate

beside

cry

canoe

destination

come

collect

daddy

candy

carriage

December

clock

car

carpenter

drip

camel

can=t

capital

dog

cherry

cartoon

capitol

doll

coming

children

coarse

drank

climbed

church

council

dress

cave

class

chorus

dairy

cold

candle

chores

drug

clothes

cheat

cunning

deaf

care

clear

cottage

dive

campfire

clerk

chemistry

dealer

charge

club

construction

dining

city

coach

capacity

display

contest

corner

certificate

diary

cover

cheese

civilization

double

chasm

claim

communication

dumb

castle

creek

commercial

dig

coats

committee

costume

dimple

catch

courtesy

concert

dance

chief

credit

conductor

doctor

cloud

celery

concentration

donkey

closed

constitution

dentist

cakes

conscience

doors

~C~

dinner

everywhere

fan

feel

does

enemy

farmer

feather

dangerous

engine

foolish

freight

drop

evil

flag

flagpole

drought

eighth

fruit

flapjack

dried

expert

false

flashlight

daughter

entertain

fear

forest

doesn=t

essay

free

flood

dinosaur

exercise

fever

fur

dark

evidence

file

dishes

existence

friend

daisy

entitled

fiber

gave

desert

effect

flannel

getting

downtown

experiment

from

grow

dream

entertainment

found

green

exclaimed

five

groceries

equipment

fly

guess

first

goat

~E~
embarrass

~G~

every

~F~

food

gymnasium

eight

February

funny

grandfather

everyone

feature

flowers

great

eat

fairly

float

give

earth

failure

faster

good-bye

eel

final

football

goes

election

favorite

fishing

going

elephant

Friday

foot

girl

extra

fairy

famous

good

ever

fall

floor

gem

escape

farm

forget

gift

enjoy

fun

forgot

gate

ghost

happiness

ill

knitting

God

high school

introduce

know

grapes

headline

imagination

kick

gasoline

healthy

index

kill

glide

how

ignore

knife

golden

him

infant

keep

grant

his

insist

kangaroo

glories

has

interior

knew

grief

heard

inspect

king

Gurdon

have

initial

guest

hands

inform

guide

harvest

grammar

hungry

~J~

listen

generation

horrible

January

lodge

half

jumps

lock

~H~

helpful

judge

lucky

horizon

hiding

just

life

hesitate

hold

join

living

humor

handy

joke

letter

happy

head

junior

loose

her

hook

June

little

hill

hospital

July

lost

how

hunter

justify

latter

jewelry

laboratory

~L~
lighthouse

halt
hike

~I~

journal

log

hobo

island

justice

lamp

hotel

Indian

heal

idea

height

ice cream

knit

look

handicap

invisible

kiss

love

land
~K~

last

lower

main

neighborhood

picnic

law

multiply

notify

pocket

lemonade

magazine

neglect

pencil

least

magnify

necessary

pool

league

message

naughty

people

laugh

motorcycle

November

pretty

lecture

many

literature

magic

lightning

middle

opera

please

muddy

one

put

must

our

play

museum

mailbox

obey

parties

mechanical

moon

ocean

plain

military

moved

operate

press

microphone

maple

organ

pretend

minister

minute

oxygen

puppy

motto

miss

old

petroleum

machinery

monkey

over

parade

once

parrot

open

pirate

~M~

pennies
~O~

mayor
musician

~N~

pull

may

notice

own

poem

match

need

outside

pray

mate

newspaper

ostrich

policemen

mind

now

onto

potato

missing

number

overcome

photograph

Monday

near

overnight

purchase

march

night

October

peaches

mercy

next

mountain

neighbor

myself

nurse

pneumonia

~P~

percent

patchwork

permit

permission

read

surrender

string

politics

ring

soul

socks

pajamas

ranch

slight

sandwich

paragraph

room

specific

science

personality

rent

source

square

principal

repeat

scene

style

particular

reply

stationary

supply

poison

route

signature

surprise

predict

recipe

stomach

sheriff

pressure

relief

scratch

September

pedestrian

rural

silence

shield

rival

substance

some

resort

social

sleep

quality

respect

sing

sit

queen

realize

she

stop

quarter

regards

snow

sack

quilt

reference

store

sock

roam

such

soft

school

sorry

soap

something

~Q~

~R~
rail

~S~

ray

surface

salt

someone

repair

spinach

score

snowman

rowboat

secretary

sew

stuck

remember

standard

slipper

scare

racing

sympathy

slogan

special

rain

similar

smile

should

river

supreme

spy

summer

rabbit

suspect

sentence

sand

raising

supply

steam

started

round

stumble

steep

stone

~W~

saying

tunnel

tariff

shine

table

traveled

stairs

Tuesday

war

shade

ten

water

straw

times

~U~

squirrel

takes

upstairs

whale

sandbag

talked

urge

whistle

seawater

things

umpire

wonder

shore

thank

urgent

worm

sight

teakettle

uniform

wound

silver

try

under

windows

spirit

top

upon

whenever

spring

treasure

use

whatever

still

take

until

world

stream

teach

understand

would

sundown

tell

Saturday

trip

Sunday

wade

weather

want
~V~

warm

tablet

vicinity

when

sunflower

tight

vain

walk

swamp

tourist

variety

work

trust

vital

which

~T~

twelve

violent

write

takeoff

terrible

vote

white

tease

Thursday

vessel

wig

teeth

thrifty

vinegar

weed

tent

target

verse

wink

thunder

toothache

very

wish

tickle

threaten

vest

witch

tramp

telegram

village

wart

trip

typewriter

wire
7

Wednesday

worth

worried
wilderness
winning

~Y~

yellow

~Z~

yell

zoo

youth

yard

yesterday

CHALLENGE WORDS
These words were chosen from the Words of the Champions to be used in the third grade
spelling bee in case all words on the present list have been given in competition. Two words
from each letter of the alphabet have been chosen.

abandonment

magnetic

abdicate

nagging

baboon

narrow

backstroke

oasis

cadence

objective

calcium

padlock

dabbing

paintbrush

daft

quarry

earnest

quarterly

ebony

rabies

fabric

radical

facial

sacred

gainful

safari

gallery

tackle

hacked

tailgate

haircut

undergrowth

ickiness

unicorn

idealize

vacant

jackrabbit

vacationland

jaded

waffle

keelboat

waitress

keypunch

yardage

landowner

yearning

library

zealous

magical

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